The Macomb Journal, page 5
Thursday, October 1, 1896
DEATH RECORD.
W. A. GRIFFITH [sic].
W. A. Griffin, an old and highly respected citizen of McDonough, died at his home on East Jackson street in this city Friday of paralysis.
Deceased was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 20, 1826, and was therefore aged 70 years, 2 months and 5 days. He moved to Ohio with his parents at the age of 7 years and in 1850 came to Vermont, Fulton county, Illinois. In March, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Jane Herlocker, and settled on a farm in New Salem township, this county, where he lived until the spring of 1885, when he moved to Macomb and has made his residence here ever since. The wife with seven children survive him. The children are: Mrs. Emma Beaty of Akron, Colo.; Mrs. Florence McCartney of Good Hope, Ill.; Mrs. Vera Sipes of Macomb; Henry of Adair, and Leslie, Charles and Truman, who are still at home
Out of a family of ten children, deceased leaves two sisters living in Kansas, and a brother Bartlett in Buffalo, N. Y., and Winfield, late from Idaho. The latter, who he had not seen for 22 years, was at his bedside.
Funeral services will be held [sic] Sunday at the Christian church at 2:30 p. m., after which the remains were interred in Oakwood cemetery.
Thursday, October 1, 1896
DEATH RECORD.
W. A. GRIFFITH [sic].
W. A. Griffin, an old and highly respected citizen of McDonough, died at his home on East Jackson street in this city Friday of paralysis.
Deceased was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 20, 1826, and was therefore aged 70 years, 2 months and 5 days. He moved to Ohio with his parents at the age of 7 years and in 1850 came to Vermont, Fulton county, Illinois. In March, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Jane Herlocker, and settled on a farm in New Salem township, this county, where he lived until the spring of 1885, when he moved to Macomb and has made his residence here ever since. The wife with seven children survive him. The children are: Mrs. Emma Beaty of Akron, Colo.; Mrs. Florence McCartney of Good Hope, Ill.; Mrs. Vera Sipes of Macomb; Henry of Adair, and Leslie, Charles and Truman, who are still at home
Out of a family of ten children, deceased leaves two sisters living in Kansas, and a brother Bartlett in Buffalo, N. Y., and Winfield, late from Idaho. The latter, who he had not seen for 22 years, was at his bedside.
Funeral services will be held [sic] Sunday at the Christian church at 2:30 p. m., after which the remains were interred in Oakwood cemetery.
The Macomb Journal, page 5
Thursday, October 1, 1896
DEATH RECORD.
W. A. GRIFFITH [sic].
W. A. Griffin, an old and highly respected citizen of McDonough, died at his home on East Jackson street in this city Friday of paralysis.
Deceased was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 20, 1826, and was therefore aged 70 years, 2 months and 5 days. He moved to Ohio with his parents at the age of 7 years and in 1850 came to Vermont, Fulton county, Illinois. In March, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Jane Herlocker, and settled on a farm in New Salem township, this county, where he lived until the spring of 1885, when he moved to Macomb and has made his residence here ever since. The wife with seven children survive him. The children are: Mrs. Emma Beaty of Akron, Colo.; Mrs. Florence McCartney of Good Hope, Ill.; Mrs. Vera Sipes of Macomb; Henry of Adair, and Leslie, Charles and Truman, who are still at home
Out of a family of ten children, deceased leaves two sisters living in Kansas, and a brother Bartlett in Buffalo, N. Y., and Winfield, late from Idaho. The latter, who he had not seen for 22 years, was at his bedside.
Funeral services will be held [sic] Sunday at the Christian church at 2:30 p. m., after which the remains were interred in Oakwood cemetery.
Thursday, October 1, 1896
DEATH RECORD.
W. A. GRIFFITH [sic].
W. A. Griffin, an old and highly respected citizen of McDonough, died at his home on East Jackson street in this city Friday of paralysis.
Deceased was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 20, 1826, and was therefore aged 70 years, 2 months and 5 days. He moved to Ohio with his parents at the age of 7 years and in 1850 came to Vermont, Fulton county, Illinois. In March, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Jane Herlocker, and settled on a farm in New Salem township, this county, where he lived until the spring of 1885, when he moved to Macomb and has made his residence here ever since. The wife with seven children survive him. The children are: Mrs. Emma Beaty of Akron, Colo.; Mrs. Florence McCartney of Good Hope, Ill.; Mrs. Vera Sipes of Macomb; Henry of Adair, and Leslie, Charles and Truman, who are still at home
Out of a family of ten children, deceased leaves two sisters living in Kansas, and a brother Bartlett in Buffalo, N. Y., and Winfield, late from Idaho. The latter, who he had not seen for 22 years, was at his bedside.
Funeral services will be held [sic] Sunday at the Christian church at 2:30 p. m., after which the remains were interred in Oakwood cemetery.
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